I NEVER EVER take Drive's comments to heart because I KNOW they are Holden biased. Even when Ford has a vastly superior car they find every single eensy weensy bit they can possibly think of to bag the Falcon. As far as I'm concerned Drive's assessments are full of sh$$, I never believe what they say. For a real assessment I usually trust MOTOR to give the fairest comparo, and to a certain extent Wheels. Drive is very obviously in Holden's pocket and you only have to go to thier website to see why.

If I remember correctly, in Drive a few weeks ago they published a double page spread on the new Falcon, including all the good bits that were new or redesigned. Along with all the details on the Barra, the incompetent and disgraceful poor excuse for a motoring liftout published a full run list of AU Falcon's 6 Recall's since 1998. Wondering WTF they thought this would prove besides trying to persuade some undecided readers that Falcon was an unreliable product, I grit my teeth and wore it thinking "let's wait and see what they do for Commodore". Now, I may have missed it somewhere, I haven't seen any trace of Commodore's 12 recall's since VT was launched in 97.

The Age/Drive journalists make the writers for Wheels magazine look like they are Ford's Board of Directors. And the Drive website is the biggest pig's breakfast I have ever seen. The web designer should be shot.